Improved twine-holder



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Taallwhonu'tmwy f A Be it' known that I, BoDNEYjL. SMITH, of Wolcottville, inthe county' of Litchfield, and Siate of Connecticut, have invented, made, and applied to usea certain new and useful Improvement in Twine-Holders; und I do he'reby declare 'thefollowing to be afull, clear, and exnct-deserption ofthe said'invent'on, reference being had to the annexeddrawin g, making part of this specilcatiom wherein- Figure'l is a vertical section of .my said twineholder, theball of twine being represented by blue lines, and

SIFigure 2 is an inverted plan of the said twine-holder.

I l Similar letters denote-the same parts.

This' twine-holder is intended for standing on a counter, and containing the ball of twine, and allowing it to be used as occasion requires, or replenished with rapuny.

My invention consists in a metallic base, formed with slots for receiving the interlocking proj ectiqns upon the lower edges of a hollow open-work dome that sets over the' ball of t\viue, keeping it in position, .but'allowing the twine to be drawn olf as used, and by a partial wtau'on the lugs and slots are separated, so that the' dome can be removed and a ball of twinefiutroduced.

In the drawing, a represents a plate, of circular shape,

with a rim, b b', around it, vand supported by feetc o,V

the whole forming a base for' the twine-holder.

' `Through this plate a segmental slots, d d, ,are `formed with an enlargement toward one end of each slot, and

. bis the dome, formed of open-work,v with I 'gs'i i projeoting below its loweredge, and these lugs are L-sliaped,

or formed with heads that pass throughl the larger parts v of the slots d, sotbat by giving thedolne a rota.-

t-ion, the dome e will be firmly locked to the base, a., by the heads or projections of the lugs t', taking beneath the plate '41` and at this point the. plate a may be slightly thicker,'so as to wedge the said. head and bind the dome y tightly to place upon the plate a. The reverse motion allows thedome c to be rem'oved.

The rim b keeps the dome e from moving laterally, and the hole or eye 9 allows the twine to be drawn ont from the ball with great facility.

This twine-holder is strong, easily made, ot' castmetal; cheap, and suilicently heavy to stand rmly in I do not claim a twine-holder, of a dome-shape, stand-u 4 In'witness whereof, I have hereunto set my signa.v

ture, this 7th day of September, 186.

RODNEY L. SMITH4 Witnesses:

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